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FILE - In this Feb. 15, 2015 file photo, Chevy Chase attends the SNL 40th Anniversary Special at Rockefeller Plaza, in New York. Chase has checked into a rehab facility in Minnesota for treatment for an alcohol problem. Chase's publicist Heidi Schaeffer said Monday, Sept. 5, 2016, that Chase is at Hazelden Addiction Treatment Center for what she calls a "tune-up" in his recovery.Evan Agostini / AP

Chevy Chase has jumped up to defend Dustin Hoffman as The Graduate star fights harassment and assault claims.

The Spies Like Us star reveals he has spoken to his pal since the allegations were made public at the end of last year, and he’s convinced Hoffman is innocent.

“We just had a long talk about that, I knew him back then, it just didn’t really happen,” Chase tells Britain’s ITV.

“He was explaining to me what they (Hoffman’s accusers) were talking about. I’ve known him forever, so I’ve never known him to be that way… groping or whatever the hell that is.”

Last year, actress Anna Graham Hunter claimed Hoffman groped her when she was a 17-year-old intern on the set of the 1985 TV movie Death Of A Salesman, while playwright Cori Thomas accused him of exposing himself to her in a New York hotel room in 1980 when she was 16.

Hoffman has denied any wrongdoing and, responding to Hunter’s claims, stated, “It is not reflective of who I am.”

Actress Kathryn Rossetter has also come forward with claims about Hoffman’s inappropriate actions during their stint in the play Death of a Salesman in 1985.

In a column written for The Hollywood Reporter, she alleges the harassment began when she visited the then-married movie star in his hotel room before the play began, and he requested she give him a massage. And the abuse reportedly continued onto the stage.

“One night in Chicago, I felt his hand up under my slip on the inside of my thighs,” the actress wrote. “I was completely surprised and tried to bat him away while watching the stage for my cues. After the show he was busy with the producer and director so I had no access to him to address it.

“It then happened almost every show. Six to eight shows a week. I couldn’t speak to him in the moment because I was on a live mic. He kept it up and got more and more aggressive. One night he actually started to stick his fingers inside me. Night after night I went home and cried. I withdrew and got depressed and did not have any good interpersonal relationships with the cast.”

During a Wag the Dog 20th anniversary screening in December, comedian and TV personality John Oliver took Hoffman to task about the allegations during a question and answer session.

The stunned The Graduate star accused the moderator of putting him “on display”, adding, “You have indicted me”.